Wrong. Animals do not experience as humans do and a lot of them are safer in the lab, and in the zoo, than in the wild. (In case you're thinking the savannah, or the jungle, or even the wilderness of deserts, is a bed of roses.)

If ISIS, or the Iranian government, threaten to nuke major US cities, and you hear about it on the news, I guarantee you that you will feel stressed, worried, and you will think about your safety as well as those you care about. Your pet cat, with its primordial brain, won't feel a thing. It doesn't even understand what could happen. That is the level of our suffering compared to them. Our brains are more complex than we can imagine. Animals don't have a clue.

As for people who cannot live with themselves or this world... well, we can only try to persuade them. In the end, it is their decision (or it should be). But I'll tell you this much: I'd rather live with an uncomfortable truth than a soothing lie. Sorry.

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"Empty cognizance of one taste, suffused with knowing, is your unmistaken nature, the uncontrived original state. when not altering what is, allow it to be as it is, and the awakened state is right now spontaneously present."

You are deluded and twisted but feel free to debate me in "Are You Religious?" as I don't wish to give your asexual friend the further orgasmic satisfaction of making his thread longer.

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"Empty cognizance of one taste, suffused with knowing, is your unmistaken nature, the uncontrived original state. when not altering what is, allow it to be as it is, and the awakened state is right now spontaneously present."